The installation process for the 904HA consists of a standard [[Beginners_Guide#USB_stick|USB stick installation]]. With installation version 2008.06, wifi will not work after installing, and ethernet may not either. To be safe for now, you may want to download the Core installation image and transfer the latest kernel sources to your Eee through some means after installing Arch - reuse your USB stick. You could then proceed to compiling a custom kernel following the instructions on this page.

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The installation process for the 904HA consists of a standard [[Beginners' guide#USB_stick|USB stick installation]]. With installation version 2008.06, wifi will not work after installing, and ethernet may not either. To be safe for now, you may want to download the Core installation image and transfer the latest kernel sources to your Eee through some means after installing Arch - reuse your USB stick. You could then proceed to compiling a custom kernel following the instructions on this page.

= Custom Kernel =

= Custom Kernel =

Revision as of 07:20, 16 February 2014

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Installing Arch

The installation process for the 904HA consists of a standard USB stick installation. With installation version 2008.06, wifi will not work after installing, and ethernet may not either. To be safe for now, you may want to download the Core installation image and transfer the latest kernel sources to your Eee through some means after installing Arch - reuse your USB stick. You could then proceed to compiling a custom kernel following the instructions on this page.

Custom Kernel

Everything one needs to run a fully functional Eee 904HA is in the vanilla 2.6.28 kernel. You need no patches or any other fancy thing. The following will outline the bare essentials one would need in building a custom kernel. If you do not want to build most of this stuff as modules, don't, but module names are listed regardless for just-in-case rc.conf convenience.

Several things require that you have the following enabled in the menuconfig:

General setup --->
[*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers

Multimedia Keys/Hotkeys

The following driver will allow most (but not all at the time of writing, kernel 2.6.28) of your Fn hotkeys to work properly, including F8 through F12. Note that the LCD backlight buttons work without this driver. Maybe the Wifi toggle does too.

Yes, hardware monitoring support is required (module: hwmon - but would be loaded automatically when loading the hotkey module of course), as is the RF switch support from the Wifi section.

Hotkey driver kernel module name: eeepc-laptop

Notes

Do not enable any of the "ASUS Laptop" options you might find in ACPI or Misc devices menus (unless they're Eee specific, of course.) They do not pertain to Eees and will fail to load if built as modules and manually attempted.